What WSJ Canada Is Reading Monday

Merger mania? So far this year, U.S. companies have proposed or agreed to $637.95 billion worth of mergers or acquisitions—either as the buyer or the target—the most at this point since Dealogic started tracking these figures in 1995.

More questions about abuses in Canada’s temporary foreign workers program. A man who came to Canada under the program to work at a retail kiosk in British Columbia says he and his colleagues worked hundreds of hours for no pay, and were forced to live under constant threat of deportation.